Augustana Swedish Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Augustana Swedish Lutheran Church is a historic church in Claremont, South Dakota. It was built in 1899 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Augustana Swedish Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4.5 mi. S of Claremont, Claremont, 57432
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Township. Claremont township
National Register reference number. 88002842 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Augustana Swedish Lutheran Church between 1998 and 2016, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
13 September 2004	Debris and open burning	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BOB OSTERMAN
12 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MIKES CORNER REIGNITE
20 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	OSTERMAN
14 October 1998	Natural	6.0 acres	Alexandria Volunteer Fire Department	ART

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this property

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claremont, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Claremont	$500	Several tree limbs were broken and a few trees were uprooted.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Claremont	-	Several large trees were downed by estimated seventy-five mph winds.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Claremont	-	Sixty mph winds downed a large tree limb.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Claremont	-	A machine shed was destroyed by eighty mph winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Claremont	-	Sixty mph winds took the top of a 12 foot tree off.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Claremont	-	Sixty mph winds broke off several large tree branches in town.
June 2024	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
June 2021	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
May 2002	Wildfire	Claremont	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Claremont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002842 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brown County	All 42 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.